So, it's been a while since the last post of this thread, but what I saw today seems to wrap it all up.
Were it not for me starting on JoJo's Bizarre Adventure way back when w/ my son, I would've never seen it to the very end as we did today, and what's said in this scene from the finale hit me.
The pic might be a spoiler if you haven't seen it, but it seems to apply to this toot thread (at least the last 3 words do).